The Dark Crystal Reviews

A fantastic, but more intense Muppet adventure.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A wonderfully invented world full of characters that transcend their puppet limitations thanks to the energy and creativity of the Jim Hansen and Frank Oz team of puppeteers and voice actors

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A distant, uninvolving experience … characters and emotions, even by the archetypal standards of high fantasy, never come to life, and the overarching mythology seems too self-consciously contrived.

Full Review | Original Score: C

An extraordinary, often mesmerizing achievement of design and performance that's held back by an underdeveloped script and a milquetoast leading character.

| Original Score: 3/4

Crystal is a miraculous rush of innovation and storytelling patience, and, in the last 25 years, the film has grown from a 1982 misfire, to a cult wonder, to a bona-fide classic that's timeless in stature and masterful in execution.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Points to the Henson team for trying to broaden the scope of their creatures -- and there's little denying that this particular flick still seems to hold up pretty darn well.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Os personagens são bem realizados e animados, mas o roteiro, além de plagiar O Senhor dos Anéis, é burocrático e pouco envolvente.

| Original Score: 2/5

This ersatz Tolkien with puppets looks and plays like ersatz Tolkien with puppets.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

You have to love a fantasy whose greatest peril is the Bog of Eternal Stench.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The screenplay by David Odell, based on a story by Mr. Henson, is without any narrative drive whatever. It's without charm as well as interest.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Comes off as an overblown puppet show.

| Original Score: D

Ponderous, yet unique and strangely charming.

| Original Score: 3/5

A leap into the darker side of Jim Henson's imagination, a wonderful movie.

| Original Score: 4/5

One of the most imaginative films I've ever seen, a fitting tribute to the brilliant career of the late master puppeteer, Jim Henson.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Yeah, the puppets look neat; too bad the story's stupid and the voice-acting sucks.

One of Henson's shining moments in modern-day cinema

| Original Score: 3/5

It's a story as old as time redone in books and films over and over again. But this one's got the one-of-a-kind Henson vision and style.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Immerses us in a familiar yet utterly unique world that's deeper, wider and more vibrantly alive than any mere puppetry.

A bittersweet spectacle.

| Original Score: 3/4

| Original Score: 4/5